AIBU to think ‘Fart’ isn’t a swear word.

Not a swear word but some people consider it vulgar or impolite.
Your mum seems to be one of them...

Similar here. I wouldn’t use the word in front of my DF or PIL. My late DM taught us to say trump, which in the current political circumstances is very apt, I think.

I was brought up in the 50s and not only was the word never used but the bodily function itself was never referred to - I think most people we knew must have kept their wind in and released it round the corner. In fact most bodily functions were never mentioned. I can't think of when I've heard a grown-up 'let rip' tbh - perhaps there are still windy corners around? As to children and animals - it would have been bad manners to have drawn attention to any farting! So, to me, a crude word but definitely not a swear word.

Well my mum farts like a trooper and my dad was worse. 🤣

Yes to all the other words but a fart is a fart.

@HoppingPavlova I had some serious bowel surgery and all the doctors and the surgeon were asking me if I had farted. So yep, I’d go with medical term too.

Well apart from the nurse who kept asking me if I had “sharted” yet, because she just knew it wasn’t going to be just a fart. She knew her stuff !! 😫

Did not get me started. It’s a fart. When speaking to older people involving this (as I often had cause to do for work), you would say ‘wind’ and around 50% would run with ‘passing wind’ and 50% would say ‘you mean farts?’ and run with that. For younger people they pretty much 100% use ‘fart’, which I’m also very happy to go with.

So, when we had kids we taught them it was a fart. Fine, until kids went to preschool (school prep). Then they were told all sorts of rubbish involving bottom burps and trumpets. I had to speak with every preschool we went to to tell them to pull their heads in, there was no such thing as a trumpet etc, it was either wind or a fart, and given the kids are not 80yo, and given I use it as a standard ‘accepted’ medical term, then fart it is. God, that was a painful time.

ETA - there is also wee and poo. The vast majority of patients who are not considerably over the hill say wee/poo. When talking to elderly patients I’d use urine/bowel motions and it would be a mix whether they ran with that or used wee/poo instead, and I’d be guided by that, but young patients especially would look at you perplexed if you used terms like stool/bowl motion, no idea what you are referring to so you use the common use terms.

Your mum needs to look up the meaning of 'swear'.

Oh my god have never heard these. The only alternate I knew as a kid was "fluff" and I rarely heard that one.

Just remembered when I was in Junior school in the early 80s, there was “guff”, so “have you guffed?” (Weird one that).

The other was “dropped your guts”. Lovely!!

When I was about 8 I overheard the phrase “rumpy pumpy” from my 23 year old next door neighbour who said “last night I did the rumpy pumpy” or something similar and cringeworthy.

I assumed a rump was your bum and as we referred to farting as pumping in our house that it was a term for farting and found it hilarious.

On Christmas Day in front of all my family I heard my uncle Steve do a discreet fart and announced “whoops I heard uncle Steve has done rumpy pumpy” 🤣.

Everyone turned and stared whilst uncle Steve vehemently denied it (I still find this the funniest bit of the story the fact he took my naive accusation seriously 😆) and asked what I was talking about.

Once Uncle Steve had cleared his name my family (especially my parents) found it very amusing but we used farting as a term for wind after that! 💩 🌬️ 😳

Call the cat a smelly little cunt and see what your Mum says.

I definitely don’t consider fart a swear word or a crude thing to say. It’s just a normal word that’s the name of a normal bodily function. Hilarious that people tie themselves in knots trying to avoid saying ‘fart’. Using cute words like botty pop or fluff just sound ridiculous. If fart is good enough for the NHS it’s good enough for me.

Of course it isn't a swear word. It's a bodily function.
What else are we meant to call it when we want to use the noun form? You can say pass wind in the verb but come on, why say two words when you can say one?

e howling here - we didn't 'have' to say this but it was definitely a term in our house that I remember fondly 🤣

My mum used to ask who’d pooted 😁

@Wac90 but crap is just from a plumber guy/developer of some ‘water closet’ improvements whose name was Thomas Crapper …

Not a swear word and definitely becoming more mainstream. I didn't know it was a word till I was about 7, and it was thought of as very rude and vulgar (1960s). From being little I called it a pardon-me! When I got older everyone just said trump.

I've heard that story before and always wondered if the Queen was grinning when she said it. Or at least had a twinkle in her eye.

We used to say this at primary school. And I remember at least one child shortening it and saying "someone's done a woff". Has anyone else ever heard the term "woff"?

I'd say that fart is a crude word but not a swear word. I'm amazed that it never occurred to some posters that crap is a swear word. Of course it is, it's just one of the milder ones!

The one I can't stand is "air biscuit". It's extremely inapt and is unfair to biscuits.

How do I decide if my company is polite??

We weren't allowed to use the word fart in the 70s. We had to say somebody had peeped.

As PPs have said stupid words like windy puff/pop, bottie burps and trump are far worse.

Of course it’s not a swear word. Although when I was child, I used to get told off for saying it and was told to call it a “trump” or “bottom burp” instead😆

its better than my sons (15 ) phrase that they all use at school: ripping ass… I’d much prefer a fart..

Acceptable for a gentleman. For a lady, perhaps a colonic coo?

Ooo flung dung? 💩